We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The usage in general is pretty good."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"It can expand easily."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The solution can scale well."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"It is a stable solution."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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